Performance trends in Paralympic athletes in sprint, middle-distance and endurance events
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Performance trends in Paralympic athletes in sprint, middle‑distance and endurance events Tamyack Alves de Macedo1 · Samuel da Silva Aguiar1,2 · Caio Victor Sousa1,3 · Lucas Pinheiro Barbosa1 · Lysleine Alves Deus1 · Patrick Anderson Santos1 · Larissa Alves Maciel1 · Pantelis Theodoros Nikolaidis4,5 · Beat Knechtle6,7 · Herbert Gustavo Simões1 Received: 11 August 2019 / Accepted: 24 February 2020 © Springer-Verlag Italia S.r.l., part of Springer Nature 2020
Abstract In recent decades the participation in Paralympic sports has grown exponentially, with an increasing number of countries and athletes attending to these events. However, despite the tremendous growth, only a few studies involving the performance of Paralympic athletes have been published to date. We aimed to investigate and compare the performance trends of men and women in category T54 from sprint, middle-distance and endurance events in Paralympic international events held from 2009 to 2018. Data were extracted from the publicly available IPC database (https://www.paralympic.org/). The male and female athletes in the Paralympic category T54 of the sprints, middle distance and endurance made up the sample. Final analysis included a total of 2097 men and 940 women (n = 3037). The comparison between men and women showed statistical differences in performance with men being faster in all sprint and middle-distance events (p
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